Dagobert Oppenheim
Dagobert Oppenheim (originally David Oppenheim ) (born July 25, 1809 in Cologne , † July 25, 1889 in Rigi-Kaltbad ) was a German entrepreneur, newspaper publisher and art patron.
Life
He was one of the sons and the ninth child of Salomon Oppenheim and their mother Deigen Levi (later called Therese Stern). He was an uncle of Albert and Eduard von Oppenheim .
In 1828 he began studying philosophy in Bonn . He later switched to law . He completed his studies with a doctorate. He belonged to the group of the Young Hegelians . After graduation he was an assessor in the Prussian judiciary and civil service.
In 1839 he converted from Judaism to Christianity. He changes his first name from David to Dagobert. Nonetheless, he campaigned for the rights of the Jews together with his brother Abraham Oppenheim in the Rhenish Provincial Parliament in 1840 and during the United State Parliament in 1847 .
He was a member of the renowned Cologne casino company . In 1839 he and other members of the family were among the co-founders of the Kölnischer Kunstverein . From 1862 he was a member of the executive committee of the association before he became chairman of the association in 1874. In 1843 he was one of the founders of the gymnastics club in Cologne.
He did not join the family's own bank, but was active in many ways in business and as a newspaper editor. In 1841 he was still one of the co-initiators as an assessor and, together with Georg Jung, one of the editors of the Rheinische Zeitung . Karl Marx had been editor for this since 1842. The newspaper was banned a short time later. Dagobert Oppenheim tried in vain to intervene personally against the Prussian king.
Since 1844 he was one of the directors of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Preußisch-Rheinische Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft. After the Bochum association for mining and cast steel production had been converted into a stock corporation with the participation of the Sal. Oppenheim bank , Dagobert Oppenheim was a member of the supervisory board. From 1860 he was President of the Rhine Steamship, Cologne and Düsseldorf Society .
Oppenheim was elected as a liberal to Cologne city council in 1866. He retained this mandate until his death. In 1867 he became president of the Cologne-Minden Railway. He was against the nationalization of the major railways by Otto von Bismarck and accused the Chancellor of expropriating the owners. This task ended with the nationalization of the railways in 1880. Oppenheim received the honorary title of a secret government councilor.
Oppenheim died in 1889 on his 80th birthday. The family grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG, between lit. K + L).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Then: Railways and Railway Entrepreneurs in the Industrial Revolution. Göttingen, 1997 p. 230
- ^ Shulamit S. Magnus: Jewish Emancipation in a German City. Stanford, 1997 p. 118
- ^ Fritz Richard Stern: Gold and Iron: Bismarck and his banker Bleichröder. Munich, 2008 p. 303
literature
- Wilhelm Treue: Dagobert Oppenheim. Newspaper editor, banker and entrepreneur in the time of liberalism and neo-cantilism . In: Tradition 9, 1964, no. 4, pp. 145-175
- Dagobert Oppenheim . In: Economics and business association in the Rhine-Westphalian industrial area (ed.): Cologne entrepreneurs in the 19th and 20th centuries . Aschendorff, Münster iW 1986 ISBN 3-4020-5588-0
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppenheim, Dagobert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheim, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1889 |
| Place of death | Rigi cold bath |